News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Israel Prize for Literature might not be granted this year because all of the judges resigned to protest the Prime Minister’s Office.The Folio Pr…
Lit Lists
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsUp at Words Without Borders this week, Suzanne Jill Levine remembers all of the times she sat down to dinner with Pablo Neruda over his lifetime.…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsTo celebrate the start of political relations between the United States and Cuba, Restless Books has begun a new blog series asking Cuban writers what it…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s forth…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe want to send our congratulations to all of the recipients of this year’s Hemingway Grant, recognizing excellence in French literature translation.Ahead…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into En…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsLibyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa was recently announced as one of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipients, and in an interview with NPR,…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsAn exciting new discovery was recently made in Northern China: a tomb, dated approximately 1,000 years old, contained no human remains, but was filled wit…
- Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is an excellent example of how children and the compelling worlds of science fiction mix together brilliantly. After all, the children of today are the leaders…
- On this day seventy-three years ago, the Japanese attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, successfully provoking the United States to enter a war that had already been occupying t…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe sadly note the passing of two literary greats this week: first, former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away at the age of 80; second, Egypti…
- 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia CoutoNews, Reviews, and InterviewsLast weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarity a…
- Photo by Joede SousaNews, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, the world remembered the fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place 25 years ago on November 9, 1989. This…
- Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsMaaza Mengiste spoke with Mantle contributor Emmanuel Iduma this week about her photogr…
- Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff.Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto and…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsJoin us in congratulating Patrick Modiano for winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature!Last week, publishing giant HarperCollins announced a new ven…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsFrench novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsWriting for the Kenyon Review, Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa guides readers through the process of inspiration, translation, and writing poetry.The…
- This week, readers everywhere (us included) celebrated Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and authors whose books have been challenged, banned, and censored because of their conte…
- Photo by Nèg FotoWhether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction t…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn one of the most controversial articles to circle the web recently, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wonders what has happened to political poets. (For…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsDuring the Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Michael Rosen asked a controversial question: what is the point of books?To honor the country she…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, the world mourned the passing of Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim.In her first New York City appearance in over 10 years, Herta Müller disc…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsAfter years of civil war and conflict, Afghan refugees are beginning to return home and bring with them waves of migrant literature.The 2014 PEN/Heim Fund…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsAll of us wish a huge congratulations to the recently named NEA Literary Translation Fellowships, including past WLT contributors Wendy Call, Ale…